Tue. 2/11/14 12:17pm
John L.:
Never heard this Chuck Berry tune before. Killer. Hey, it's Gene Vincent's birthday. Do you have a copy of "Catman" sitting around? I'm on a mission to make sure the whole world hears Cliff Gallup's playing on that song.

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Tue. 2/11/14 12:23pm
cd tap:
say, what happened to all the good sleds, dammit? I broke our good one couple weeks back and all they have at the hardware store are disks and pathetic pieces of foam (same stuff the put in Subway dough).

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Tue. 2/11/14 12:24pm
Cheri Pi:
CDT, the hood of a car is the only sled you'll ever need.

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Tue. 2/11/14 12:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...that's what I told my goilfriend C-Pi
...but she *still* wanted to play in the snow...

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Tue. 2/11/14 12:29pm
herb.nyc:
since RADIO MOSCOW is in the house, i learned this from music pal BRYAN SWIRSKY, who writes - Weirdness Is My Life Dept: I'm going to be interviewed by John Schaefer on WNYC's Soundcheck tomorrow night. We're discussing the history of early 1980s Russian Soviet punk, with a special focus on the extremely fertile Siberian underground scene. Tune in at 9:00PM Tuesday to WNYC 93.9 or... THIS IS TONIGHT !!!

Tue. 2/11/14 12:32pm
Toddophonic:
The flip of "Mini-Skirt" is "Kalamazoo Can Can Kangaroo".

Tue. 2/11/14 1:32pm
Figures of Light:
Micragirls -- another KILLER!! Joe, where do you find this stuff!! Just a killer set!!

Tue. 2/11/14 1:34pm
Robert:
My opinion may not be widely shared, but "Give Me a Kiss" is a demonstration of how pedestrian most Beatles pieces were--so much so that they could be delivered in compact form like that.

Tue. 2/11/14 1:35pm
Figures of Light:
Is this from the soundtrack of GET YOURSELF A COLLEGE GIRL?

Tue. 2/11/14 1:43pm
Robert:
What you guys are writing about "pop music" is true. But the Beatles, who were excellent technically and could play anything well, were treated as if THEIR "pop music" compositions weren't like the rest of that kind. That gave them a reputation that allowed them to make a lot of money and produce some really interesting stuff, but MOST of their compositions--the ones that made them money--were cookie-cutter and so can easily be mashed up.

Tue. 2/11/14 1:46pm
Robert:
If you think I try too hard, last night I read a youth football coach report that his children are so diligent, they often return to their completed homework to check or proofread it.

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Tue. 2/11/14 1:47pm
paul b:
Recently saw a series of pictures on NPR's website of what the Washington Coliseum looks like today: www.npr.org... I had forgotten this is where the Beatles played. I pass it all the time (you can see it from the DC Metro red line just north of the Union Station stop)

Tue. 2/11/14 1:47pm
LovecraftDude888:
homework...I would do it, usually, and get it over with ASAP. And then go play records.

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Tue. 2/11/14 1:48pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
@Robert: I agree that The Beatles took over the marketplace @ the expense of many others that were worthy - & that it's overstated that between Elvis & The Beatles there was nothing. That's actually something I'm very interested in. In fact - this here is a Program that notably champions those dispossessed - w/ Surf & Garage & the like.
- But The Beatles not worthy on merit? - uh uh. The Beatles were Destiny.

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Tue. 2/11/14 1:53pm
cd tap:
yeah, there was a difference in most of Beatles early stuff from everything else. Their chord progressions alone were kind of crazy given the state of rock/pop at the time. And each time they changed, they were slightly ahead (leading) everyone else. I think that's pretty significant.

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Tue. 2/11/14 1:56pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- yeah - The Beatles were a mature summation & concentration of most of what had gone before that was good - & pointing forward - like McGuinn saying The Beatles were already FolkRawk before The Byrds...& yeah, Style & Humor - so easy to take for granted now how much they were a departure from crew-cut 50s America...

Tue. 2/11/14 1:57pm
LovecraftDude888:
I'm much of the theory that the Beatles were 10000x better as they went...Rubber Soul or Revolver onwards I'm much more into than the earliest stuff, by far. Esp. White Album and all that

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Tue. 2/11/14 1:57pm
Mike East:
@cd tap - On one of the many recent looks back at the Beatles on the TV news, they show the Hard Days Night clip "How did you find America? Turn left at Greenland"....I once again cracked up like it was the first time I heard it.

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Tue. 2/11/14 2:01pm
Tom from Detroit:
I personally love the airport interview where they get asked "what about the claim you're just a bunch of English Elvises?....." and Ring and John start shaking their butts and shoulders all over the place screaming "it's not true, it's not true!......"

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Tue. 2/11/14 2:02pm
Mike East:
the other one that still gets me EVERY time is Ringo's: "I'm a Mocker" (mod/rocker)...and the woman's laugh afterward is hilarious as well.

Tue. 2/11/14 2:02pm
Robert:
All I know is, when we saw them on Ed Sullivan, I was just as mystified as my parents and grampa what the big deal was. They didn't seem much different from other acts he had on, yet the girls were swooning.

OTOH, Elvis Presley was if anything UNDERrated as a performer. In 1969 my family dragged me to his comeback show in Las Vegas, and I went in thinking of his material as cornball, etc., but came out very impressed by how that guy could ENTERTAIN!

Tue. 2/11/14 2:03pm
LovecraftDude888:
Mike isn't that bit also in Hard Day's Night with George doing it to the old stiff?

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Tue. 2/11/14 2:03pm
cd tap:
I was heavily into mod crap when I was a teenager..until I realized rockabilly was soooo much fucking cooler. Then I became a mocker.

Tue. 2/11/14 2:10pm
Beat-90:
Thank God someone finally paid attention to the Neil Young-cover deficit on this otherwise excellent program. And props to DJ Joe B. for getting right to work putting it right. I've been sitting at home wondering, "am I the only one who's wondering where the Neil Young covers are?" Nice to find out I'm not crazy or something.

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Tue. 2/11/14 2:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...like Jackson Browne in some Rockumentary saying when The Beatles arrived - suddenly it was like there were these four people who Looked Right - & the whole rest of the World seemed Wrong
- likewise - ThreeChordMonte gets it so right & the rest if the world - wtf?...

Tue. 2/11/14 3:03pm
micro review:
100% thumbs-up:
The Neil Young cover and the "Neil Young cover" That'll show 'em!

99% thumbs-up:
Blue Caps set. Just remember to play Crazy Legs next time